Christopher Moore's History News

In the Globe and Mail , Maura Forrest reports on how the mayor of Plessisville, QC. (pop. 9000), the until now undisputed " Capitale mo...

The new Dictionary of Canadian Biography entry on Herbert Molson (1875-1938)  is a blockbuster, worth reading even if you have no interest...

The Guardian publishes a story about a process that is fairly routine in parliamentary governments all over the world:  an unpopular party l...

 "It is intended to be amended," is the epigraph that starts Jill Lepore's We The People , a history of the U.S. constitution ...

University of Manitoba Press announces a forthcoming title for September 2026: Truth before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School D...

I hope Louise Arbour will be an ornament to the office of Governor General.  She is almost eighty, but like a lot of senior judges she seems...

For those who like fine details of constitutional law, or parliamentary history minutiae, Emmett Macfarlane's Substack discussing the re...

I'm still reading Louise Dechêne's People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canada, which I mentioned earlier . I read it i...

 

Aaron Wherry, politics columnist at CBC News, has just published a very calm demolition of the Conservative Party's efforts to delegitim...

On his Substack, Paul Wells reprints in translation   Jean-François Nadeau's recent column on Quebec's secularism law, currently at...

I have not read this, but it sounds like an interesting take on military history by an anthropologist  -- a history of what people don't...

This op-ed about electoral corruption in Alberta, by Rachel Notley, former NDP premier of Alberta, is worth reading  (gift link) and very di...

In these days of the dwindling of book reviews and publications that run them, it's worth noting a newish (two years) review dedicated t...